Straightforward Pear Galette – Emily Bites

This Straightforward Pear Galette is a scrumptious lightened up dessert that’s filled with fall taste and comes along with ease! Not aware of galettes? A galette is principally only a freeform pie that you just make and not using a pie plate. You’ll love how easy it’s to place this recipe collectively utilizing store-bought pie crust dough and only a few different elements you doubtless have readily available. It can save you much more prep time by selecting to not artfully prepare the pears in overlapping concentric circles and as an alternative simply spooning them onto the crust in a pile after which smoothing them out a bit. It’s going to look barely much less fancy, however will nonetheless be simply as scrumptious.

I believe this Pear Galette could be excellent for a “friendsgiving” celebration or as a bonus Thanksgiving dessert. Not solely is that this tasty deal with scrumptious and simple to make, it additionally makes use of much less sugar and lets the pure sweetness of the pears shine. Every slice is simply 187 energy or 6 WW Factors every (or 8 factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan)! To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app or website, click on right here!

Recipe Notes

• Pears: You’ll need to use pears which are ripe however nonetheless a bit agency (not smushy or over-ripe, however not rock-hard both). Mainly, you need them to be agency sufficient to peel simply, however ripe sufficient to be candy. I like to recommend Anjou pears for this recipe over Bartlett pears as a result of they’re firmer and maintain collectively higher for baking.
• Pie Crust: This Pear galette recipe is tremendous straightforward, partly as a result of it makes use of pre-made pie crust dough. I exploit and advocate the Pillsbury Refrigerated Pie Crusts. They are often discovered within the refrigerated part of the grocery retailer and are available in a field of two (although you’ll solely use one for this recipe). They’re already rolled into good even circles, so you possibly can simply use your rolling pin somewhat bit to get them to 12-inch diameter. Tremendous straightforward.
• Sugar/Sweetener: This recipe makes use of each brown sugar and granulated (white) sugar. Fortunately, pears are naturally so candy and scrumptious that you just don’t want so as to add a ton of sugar to show them right into a tasty dessert! I haven’t tried this recipe utilizing different sweeteners, however I’d think about that it will work simply high-quality. When you determine to make use of a sugar substitute, ensure you take note of the conversion charge as a result of some alternate options are a lot sweeter than sugar in an analogous amount.
• Lemon Juice: This recipe makes use of a tablespoon of lemon juice, which is concerning the quantity I get from juicing half a lemon. I exploit a picket citrus reamer like this one (affiliate hyperlink) and it really works splendidly.
• Cornstarch: Utilizing cornstarch on this recipe provides the filling that thicker, gooey pie-filling consistency. Since pears don’t launch a whole lot of juice whereas cooked, you solely want a tablespoon and it really works completely.
• Storage: This Straightforward Pear Galette is greatest eaten the day of for a crispy crust, however you possibly can preserve it, coated, on the counter for a pair days.

Extra Lightened Up Dessert Recipes

In search of extra tasty lightened up dessert recipes like this Straightforward Pear Galette? Take a look at my Topless Apple Pie, Gingerbread Cheesecake Cups, Pecan Pie Bites, Combined Berry Pie, Strawberry Cheesecake Cups, Fudgy Pumpkin Chocolate Brownies, Pumpkin Pie Bites, Mini Cinnamon Apple Tarts, Tacky Cinnamon Baked Pears, Cheesecake Fruit Dip, Combined Berry Mini Tarts, Cannoli Dip, and plenty of extra within the Desserts part of my recipe index!